When he was 17, my brother wrote this lyric, he said 'Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow'." Oscars best moments parasite - quote
No need for revenge. Just sit back and wait. Those who hurt you will eventually screw up themselves and if you're lucky, God will let you watch.
A boomerang returns back to the mob who throw it. . .
To forgive is a strength, not a weakness, so all power to the Abdallah family
If our race is to survive and flourish, we need strong forgivers. People who are genuinely able to forgive are not weak, not victims or doormats, but some of the strongest individuals in the moral universe.
DON SURBER: Jeff Bezos to the editor of his Washington Post: “Hey, these bullets bounce off President Donald John Trump.
THE CALLS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE: Bombshell: Fox News Has Briefing Book Impugning Network’s Own Sources On Ukraine.
This Particular Moment: A Culture Of Meanness
“Our contemporary moment is a culture of meanness. It’s not based on facts. It’s not based on conversation… it’s destructive to our democracy and our institutions. Notice the bags under my eyes? That’s what it’s about.” –
German TV Exposes the Lies That Entrapped Julian Assange Consortium NewsPaper Masks Are Fooling Facial Recognition Software Entrepreneur
After 87 Years, A Radical Novel Of The Harlem Renaissance Finds A Publisher
Claude McKay set aside his novelRomance in Marseille in 1933 because his editor thought it too shocking to sell: its protagonist is a West African double amputee with a prostitute lover, and most of the action is “in a sexually liberated working-class milieu, where queer love is accepted as a fact of life, no more subject to judgment than its heterosexual counterpart.” Penguin Classics has just published it for the first time. – The New York Times
Vale Deep Blogger MICHAEL SILENCE, journalist/blogger extraordinaire and major mover of the Tennessee blogosphere.
Vale Deep Blogger MICHAEL SILENCE, journalist/blogger extraordinaire and major mover of the Tennessee blogosphere.
Because here’s a fact about mourning — when someone close to you dies, even if it’s expected, it’s like a bomb has gone off. And you and your family are wandering around in the rubble, shivering in the wind. You don’t know what day it is, and you keep forgetting why you went into a room. Eyeglasses are lost and appointments forgotten as you try to deal with the fact that this person who was so essential is somehow, incredibly no longer on this Earth. This fact keeps hitting you, like the shock waves after an explosion. As Emily Dickinson wrote, “After great pain, a formal feeling comes / The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs …”
At this time, the visits and calls from friends are like the pieces of a quilt. And the quilt pieces come together into a blanket and warm you, getting you through this time of shock and sorrow. It doesn’t matter if all they say is “I’m sorry.” They don’t have to stay long. They don’t have to be clever. The thought really is enough. It’s enough that they’re there in the stuffy funeral parlor, or at the luncheon, looking at pictures of your mom and nodding as you babble, “Wasn’t she pretty? Wasn’t she fun?”
Fewer people are going to memorial services these days, according to surveys by the National Funeral Directors Association. In 2013, 10.3% of respondents had not gone to a funeral in the last five years. In 2019, almost 37% had not gone to any memorial service in five years.
This isn’t a good trend. So take my parents’ advice and send a card, make a call or, better yet, go to the wake or the funeral. You’ll probably feel a little awkward, and get bad coffee. But what you’ll give to a grieving family is priceless.
Review: 'American Factory'
It's clear throughout that every Dayton native is making a genuine effort to be tolerant. In the promo video, Obama admits he expected otherwise, saying "they exhibited a lot more trust than I would have expected." The sole exception comes when one worker asks why Chinese propaganda has to be playing in the factory lunchroom at all hours.
The Chinese executives, by contrast, belittle, stereotype, and insult their American employees. We're treated to several Chinese-language training sessions in which executives inform managers what to expect from Americans. Americans, they say, are "slow," "overconfident," and hard to train because of their "fat fingers." In one session, a company VP compares his American workers to donkeys and says, matter-of-factly, "we're better than them."
Can Social Mapping Explain Relationships Between Cultures?
If you look at the U.S., Canada is culturally similar, as is Australia. If you look at China, Vietnam and South Korea are quite culturally similar. The point, though, is that the world, culturally, doesn’t go linearly from the U.S. to whatever the endpoint is—Egypt, in this case. Those countries in between the U.S. and Egypt are not similar to each other because they fall in between them. – Nautilus
Tax fraud area has been in existence since at least the 1st Century. How do I know -
The
bible tells about tax collectors, and if
there were people collecting tax there were people trying to cheat the tax
system and I’m sure the Roman emperor Caesar had people whose job it was to
find out who was cheating and to deal with them
After
1824 the Government of New South Wales raised extra revenue from customs and
excise duties. These were the most important sources of money for the colony's
Government throughout the 19th century. Taxes were raised on spirits, beer,
tobacco, cigars and cigarettes. – nothing has changed ...
I posted about Badminton House last week without realizing it would be featured in the December 2019 issue of Vogue.
“You can’t hack pen and paper.” Do tell.
The New York Times – The company, owned by Google’s parent, introduced a free tool it calls Assembler to sort out real images from fake ones. “On February 4, 2020, Jigsaw, a company that develops cutting-edge tech and is owned by Google’s parent, unveiled a free tool that researchers said could help journalists spot doctored photographs — even ones created with the help of artificial intelligence. Jigsaw, known as Google Ideas when it was founded, said it was testing the tool, called Assembler, with more than a dozen news and fact-checking organizations around the world. They include Animal Politico in Mexico, Rappler in the Philippines and Agence France-Presse. It does not plan to offer the tool to the public. “We observed an evolution in how disinformation was being used to manipulate elections, wage war and disrupt civil society,” Jared Cohen, Jigsaw’s chief executive, wrote in a blog post about Assembler. “But as the tactics of disinformation were evolving, so too were the technologies used to detect and ultimately stop disinformation.” The tool is meant to verify the authenticity of images — or show where they may have been altered. Reporters can feed images into Assembler, which has seven “detectors,” each one built to spot a specific type of photo-manipulation technique. When an image has been manipulated — for instance, two images were merged together or something was deleted from the background — traces of the changes may be left behind. With a computer program that has been trained to learn from being shown example after example of what it should detect, Assembler can analyze an image and highlight where it thinks those traces are…”
I GUESS THERE IS NO REAL CRIME IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLORIDA: Undercover cops hired 118 handymen, then arrested them all for not having licenses.
An awful lot of you have seen the 2011 movie Contagion. I know this because when a certain now-deleted twitter thread about the new coronavirus’s R0
went (sorry) viral, people kept asking me if I’d seen the scene in the
movie where Kate Winslet’s character explains the term to a roomful of
skeptical government…
REST IN PEACE, Michael Silence. He was an early newspaper booster of the blogosphere, and I guestblogged for him at his News-Sentinel blog No Silence Here sometimes. A terrific guy, taken from us too soon.
REST IN PEACE, Michael Silence. He was an early newspaper booster of the blogosphere, and I guestblogged for him at his News-Sentinel blog No Silence Here sometimes. A terrific guy, taken from us too soon.
